AmeriCorps Community Support Navigators helping to create inclusive communities.

AmeriCorps Community Support Navigators helping to create inclusive communities.

Individual Advocacy and Family Supports

Individual Advocacy & Family Supports encompasses two interrelated areas: enhancing the capacity of natural supports to meet the needs of people with developmental disabilities and addressing whole-family support needs.

Activities include:

  • providing information, training, and support services to families
  • providing community training and technical assistance in promoting consumer and family-centered planning and service coordination, and
  • promoting consumer and family support and advocacy systems at the community, state, and national level.

Individual Advocacy and Family Supports Projects:

Enhancing Pediatric Care Coordination for CYSHCN

Missouri Family to Family Health Information Center

Missouri Family to Family Resource Center 

Missouri Guardianship Project 

Special Health Care Needs Family Partnership Initiative